Monday, September 28, 2015

Pamela Braun originally from San Antonio, Texas motivated by the prodigious rainforest environment immigrated to Belize in 1990 to paint natural spaces that are being extinguished in the Americas. The universality of her art is rooted in nature. Believing that when art is true, it is one with nature, the secret of primitive art. Guillermo Gutierrez Nieto author of Belize Art Panorama of the Arts in Belize , Ediciones Pleamar, Mex,2001 says about Pamela,

" Her principal expression medium is painting utilizing mostly oil, she also works with mixed materials and with huge spaces painting murals.

A quick look to her works could suggest to us only reproductions of something obvious in this country. Nevertheless, if we watching them with detail, we can discover a thorough technical process which ends in a perennial vividness reflected in the natural elements that she integrates.

The mixed works of Pamela Braun have implicit one of the dilemma that most of the artists affront, the social compromise. In that sense, through the pieces of old newspapers , Braun invokes the deep difference between the natural harmony and the villainess of some human acts. Maybe for this reason, the works are a kind of call toward the improvement of our spiritual health if we look again to the nature."

During a time of constantly reworking meaning, this image was used as a metaphor for my inward spiral during voluntary expatriation while I sought information from a culture outside of my own and was moving against barriers that stood in my way of becoming a painter. The windmills were the barriers of thought and experience that I revolted against in contemporary western society and its social and economic structures.

Sunday, September 27, 2015

As a contemporary artist, Karen Alekyan highly appreciates ecological, social-political, gender and human rights problems. His art reflects the social-political picture of the world and global issues. The main message of his art is social injustice, the rights of small nations in the big politics, racial discrimination, raising of ecological problems. He is sure that the main issue in the context of Contemporary Arts should not be the philosophy of inperfect past but that of foreseen Future.
He is a freelance artist, he works in the sphere of painting, digital art, mailart, book art, installation, photo, performance and videoarts. His works are presented in Armenia and in many countries of the world.

INGRID PARRA CORNEJO was born in Santiago, Chile. She is an accountant who works in education. She expresses her creativity by designing window displays and school illustrations. She is sensitive to the plight of children and created this altered book about children in detention to advocate for them.

Art Call

Migration and exile is a constant force creating shifting landscapes of identity, inclusion and exclusion. Society views the migrant as stranger in its midst: a stranger that is either assimilated or feared. Who is the stranger? What is the stranger searching for or fleeing? Don Quixote shifts the perspective from settlement to explorer, whether exiled or migrating through the boundaries of historical situations or our rapidly changing global context. Create art using the altered book form, or mail art (not to exceed size 8"x11" or A4) to be exhibited in both the United States and Chile in 2016. Start imagining and creating now. Details about art/literary/cultural exhibitions and where to send the art will be announced summer 2015. No jury, no return. All art becomes property of the Quixote project to be curated for future exhibitions and symposiums on migration and exile. Please send jpegs of your art, your name and link to your website or contact info to be posted on the Don Quixote blog. We will post jpegs as we receive them for the online exhibition. donquixotemailart@gmail